i am lucky. i was born into a jewish family, and a secular one at that (at least from the time i was three when mom said she wasn't doing the kosher thing anymore). jews do not proselytize. i don't think it's even permitted! so there is no such thing as an evangelical jew... except that the chabad lubavitchers will try to bring more secular jews "back into the fold" so to speak. i haven't run into that since the early 1980s, in west hollywood, and it was always within the same couple of blocks... and they really didn't bother me. be that as it may, no, my family members, none of whom live anywhere near me anyway, never did bother me about religion. as for politics, i come from a wide-ranging family of democrats so when we disagree (on facebook) it's on a detail, not on a big concept. no animosity ensues.

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